Mystery Mastery: Brigid, Who's Read Some Abilities

Welcome back to Mystery Mastery, where we try brewing decks with the most mysterious Commanders around: the Mystery Booster legendaries. I have a deep love of these Test Cards: I think they're the best version of Un-set cards Wizards has ever put out, and I'm always excited to see new ones.

Now that folks have gotten their hands on Mystery Booster 2, we get to see a bunch of unusual and wild designs for cards, especially the handful of legendary creatures in the set. If you're lucky enough to get some and have a play group that lets you use them, then this article series is for you.

Today's deck brings back an old legendary creature and an old kindred group who I both have a deep affection for: Brigid Baeli and the residents of Kinsbaile, the Kithkin. In Mystery Booster 2, we got to see a Brigid who's seen a lot, specifically Brigid, Who's Seen Some Stuff

She's apparently seen a lot of keywords printed on cards, and thanks to her thoughtweft ability she's gonna share those experiences with her family and some newly disguised friends. Building this deck is very similar to building Odric, Lunarch Marshal

Wait, What's Outlast Again?

First let's talk about the ability toolbox Brigid gets to work with. There are a handful of abilities I can't or won't put onto my Kithkin for various reasons: some, like ingest, have no white-identity cards with it, while landwalk and skulk are lesser, redundant forms of evasion when flying, protection, and Brigid's own "nimble" exist. Then there's a few abilities, like phasing, which just suck. That brings us to 28 different abilities in the deck and luckily I was able to get some of my favorite keywords, like annihilator, to make my team make you sacrifice your stuff, battle cry to have my whole team buff my whole team, and rampage, to remind others that rampage exists.

Here's some background for the next part: I was on a roll making this deck, adding as many things that give strange abilities as I could (do you know there's an Aura that gives horsemanship?). The roughest bit of constructing this deck was mid-way through research when I remembered the age-old adage: reading the f@#&ing card. Brigid's thoughtweft ability only distributes printed abilities to your Kithkin, meaning any modifications like Auras, Equipment, and counters that add abilities do not apply. Though it made me cut half of the deck I'd been working on up to that point, it allowed me to find a couple of creatures I can use to "cheat" that rule.

Making Fake Kithkin

What I mean by cheats is cards like Konda, Lord of Eiganjo

Everybody Get In Here

To avoid reusing that Kithkin parenthetical again, how are we gonna make all these keyword-soup creatures into Kithkin? Good old fashioned identity theft! Our all-star is of course Maskwood Nexus

Now that we've given our creatures fake IDs, it's time to sneak them into the party we're having on the battlefield. Belbe's Portal

Make It A Reality

But what if you want to play this deck without Brigid? Luckily the deck includes two perfectly suitable ability-granters, Odric and Akroma, Vision of Ixidor